July 2009

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Everything's Going to be All White
Nostalgia for the Mud: “Scarjo, darling, would you mind rolling your shoulders back so we can really see the yellow star pinned to your chest?”
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Here’s a term that you should familiarize yourself with:
“Nostalgie de la boue” means ascribing higher spiritual values to people and cultures considered “lower” than oneself, the romanticization of the faraway primitive which is also the equivalent of the lower class close to home.
Vanity Fair has a new photo-spread this month called DEPRESSION-CHIC where they dress up a [...]